UC Santa Barbara students attend a candlelight vigil following Friday's series of drive-by shootings that left 7 people dead in the Isla Vista section of Santa Barbara May 24, 2014.
Two brothers identified as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have had little to do with the area for years, says a spokesman for Chechnyan leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
As hundreds of heavily armed police continued their massive manhunt for Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in Monday's bombing of the Boston Marathon, the Boston area was ordered shut down with all public transportation suspended. 
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$560,000 raised for memorial scholarship
After receiving more than 1,000 screenplays from US-based contestants, organizers of the 2013 Beijing International Screenwriting Competition announced a collaboration on Friday with the Beijing Film Academy to film the scripts from finalists.
Wisconsin, rich both in water and aqua technology, is discovering business and cooperation opportunities in China, said the US state's governor.
Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing in a shootout and mounted house house-to-house searches for a second man, with much of the city under virtual lock-down. Live report
Federal officials walk up to the house of Paul Kevin Curtis to search for evidence in Corinth, Mississippi April 18, 2013.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Thursday night reported on its website that gunshots were reported late in the night on campus, and state police said a MIT police officer has been shot.
Members of the West community participate in a candlelight vigil at St. Mary's Church a day after a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas April 18, 2013.
An Asian American organization in US urged Asian Americans on Thursday to defend family union in immigration reform.
China's glamorous new first lady Peng Liyuan were among Time's most influential list.
The death toll in the West, Texas, explosion at a fertilizer plant has reached 14 people.
Live report Marathon blasts hurt US image as safe place to study 20 years since Waco 'massacre'
US President Barack Obama landed in Boston on Thursday, on his way to a memorial service for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing near the finish line.
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